How to Use indifference in a Sentence

indifference

noun

• She watched them with a cool indifference.
• She was amazed that some people could watch the trial with indifference.
• In the face of this indifference, the onus falls on us to keep ourselves safe.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• The light, the trumpet, the sweat and the shame of the young man, the profound indifference of the world to him—all of it exceeded language.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• This learned indifference to the obvious, to the grinding of the bones of their own.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• In his lifestyle, Coltrane stood apart for his indifference to the scene.
  — Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2021
• The film is a satire of high-art circles and a critique of the world’s indifference towards the refugee crisis.
  — Alexander Durie, Variety, 27 Aug. 2021
• So far, those pleas for help have been met with indifference.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• But to his surprise, if not our own, he’s met with indifference and scorn.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
• Yet, to many young people, the king seems to almost flaunt his indifference.
  — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• For the jazz titan Sonny Rollins, the saxophone was a means to pierce the veil of indifference and outright hate.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Dee, being Dee, falls into the cruel Trevor's predictable rich guy prank-trap, much to the rest of the Gang's indifference.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2022
• Anger is better than indifference, which is what the end of the Krystkowiak era yielded.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
• Franco doubled in the eighth and went to third on defensive indifference with the Rays ahead 8-0.
  — Mark Didtler, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• But the indifference and fear that maintain this border can be as lethal as a chokehold.
  — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 12 May 2023
• This indifference to the law has made the bar an underground favorite.
  — Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2023
• Some of its members, like Trump, may feel genuine indifference toward the fate of freedom in the world.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 24 Aug. 2021
• Seeing a women's section disappear in indifference, in 2024, the year of the Olympic Games in France, is a shame.
  — Assile Toufaily, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
• Our faiths tell us to reject indifference and demand justice; to choose life over death, and love over fear.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
• Love takes time to grow, but indifference is barren soil.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
• The big ballooning pleats and pooling hems of the ’90s signaled an indifference to the style, often serving as a place to clip one’s pager.
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
• They're charged with depriving Floyd of the right to be free from indifference to his medical needs.
  — Amy Forliti, ajc, 11 Jan. 2022
• But what bothered him the most was the indifference shown by the Black community over the broken promise.
  — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
• Each of the teachers is a kick, as is the principal, played with aggressive indifference by Janelle James.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• After a while—Cruella has a two-plus-hour running time—all the whiplash begins to look like indifference.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
• Most marriages that end come apart not in hatred but in indifference.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• Of course, the solution, in the end, can’t be indifference—not indifference to the death of the C.E.O., and not the celebration of it, either.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
• Fan outrage has given way to indifference, which is why Cal doesn’t have much choice other than to fire Fox.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2023
• Some comfort can be found in the indifference of the cosmos to our stories; some other comfort lies in the thought that the cosmos tells stories much like our own.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
• Gelb’s notion of a decades-long melodic drought ending with Philip Glass and John Adams shows a basic indifference to opera history.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025